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'You've paid for the Tube or the car park, you've handled keys and coins and you've ended up having a bacon sandwich.

'You pay with the £10 note and it's given in turn to the woman who's wearing some terribly expensive hand cream'.

Among the scents mixed into the perfume are cotton, soupcon ink, leather, hand cream, human sweat and tobacco.

The master perfumer was commissioned to make the notes of a previous era.

The new £10 note, which features Jane Austen, is made of polymer, as well as the recently introduced £5.

The new £10 note, which features Jane Austen, is made of polymer, as well as the recently introduced £5

The Bank of England said the new notes are 'stronger, cleaner and more secure', in that they are difficult to tear and can survive being washed.

The polymer note, set to be unveiled in July on the 200th anniversary of the writer's death, depicts her with a slightly plump face, a lace bonnet and serene expression; it was painted after she died in 1817 at the age of 41.

Austen’s portrait will replace Charles Darwin on a new set of plastic, unrippable notes.

More than 35,000 people had signed a petition calling for the new £10 notes to feature a female face after Elizabeth Fry, the Quaker prison reformer, was replaced by Winston Churchill on £5 notes.